NOTODONTA. 



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are several European species, some of which occur in Eng- 

 land. 



THE PEBBLE PROMINENT. NOTODONTA ZICZAC. 



Bombyx ziczac, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 504, no. 39 



(1758) ; id. Faun. Suec. p. 296 (1761) ; Esper, Schmett. iii. 



p. 293, Taf. 59, figs. 1-4 (1786); Godart, Lepid. France, 



iv. p. 182, pi. 17, figs. 3, 4 (1822?). 

 Notodonta ziczac, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iii. p. 48 



(1810); Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 23 (1828); 



Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 143, pi. 31, fig. 



9, fl-</(i88o); Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Lepid. ii. p. 152, 



pi. 33, fig. 4 (1887); Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl. iii. p. in, 



pi. 105 (1895). 



The Pebble Prominent is a common European Moth. It 

 expands from i % to i ^ inch. 



The Pebble Prominent. 



The colour is pale yellowish-brown ; the fore-wings with 

 the costa reddish-white, esj ecially broad and light in the cen- 



